Richard D. Davis

Richard D. Davis

Richard David Davis (1799 - June 17, 1871) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born at Stillwater, New York, Davis graduated from Yale College in 1818.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1821 and commenced practice in Poughkeepsie.

Davis was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845).He served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-eighth Congress).He was not a candidate for renomination in 1844. Withdrew from political and professional life.He engaged in agricultural pursuits in Waterford, New York, where he died on June 17, 1871.He was interred in Waterford Rural Cemetery.

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